🚨 Advance warning 🚨 This forum will be closing on 1st May – please see our pinned thread for more information.
Options
Black out blinds for nursery
Hi
I am new to Baby expert. I am due on 16th May and hoping that it will come on time. I have everything ready in the nursery but i have been reading the Gina Ford Contented baby. It says that a baby's room should be in total darkness. I do have shutters over the windows which do a great job, but there is a tiny gap and i am worried that it will wake baby up during day sleeps. Am i worrying over nothing or do you think black out blinds are the way forward just in case?
Your advice would be appreciated
Kerry
I am new to Baby expert. I am due on 16th May and hoping that it will come on time. I have everything ready in the nursery but i have been reading the Gina Ford Contented baby. It says that a baby's room should be in total darkness. I do have shutters over the windows which do a great job, but there is a tiny gap and i am worried that it will wake baby up during day sleeps. Am i worrying over nothing or do you think black out blinds are the way forward just in case?
Your advice would be appreciated
Kerry
0
Replies
To be honest, daytime sleeps need to be in daylight with normal background noise etc, bedtime at night is in darkness with real quiet. It helps them learn the difference between day and night quicker and believe me - you'd rather the baby slept well at night than in the day!
xx
Joe was a May baby and we've always had blackout blinds in his room, he's 3 this time and still has them! That said his rooms have always been quite bright whereas yours sounds dark already. My advice would be to see how you go on without one cos you can always get one at a later date. Just a word of warning with blackout blinds, we found that when we went away when he was smaller he struggled to settle as the room was so much lighter than he's used to. He's fine now but when he was smaller it was hard work!
Good luck with your baby!!
Zoe
xx
We had a blackout blind for our first one but not our second.
Our first one had really thin cream curtains that didn't block out any light at all so the blind was quite useful. we recently painted his room and bought him new curtains so we got rid of the blind and although its not completely dark in there it's dark enough for him to go to sleep.
Sounds like your shutters will be more than enough.
Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy amd the birth of your baby.
I don't want him to get used to sleeping only in total darkness because we are going camping next month and he needs to be able to sleep while its light.. plus I spent years as a kid with dark dark curtains and it took me months to learn to sleep with lighter curtains.
We figured if we needed a blind we could always get one but wouldn't bother spending the money if we didn't need to - I'm glad we didn't bother
I've always put Ellis down during the day with the light coming in so that he knows the difference between day and night. I've only just brought some black out blinds as when the clocks changed the lighter nights messed him up a bit so i made sure it was dark in his room when he went to bed at 7pm (although, you still get a little bit of light coming in). Ellis is 9 months now and still has 3 naps during the day and because he's used to it being light when he naps this means he will still nap if we are out or at a friends.
Good luck xx